MARTINEZ -- A superior court judge sentenced Christopher Miller to the maximum 69 years in prison Friday for repeatedly molesting an 11-year-old Bay Point boy, with harsh words for the 42-year-old pedophile who has spent two decades avoiding serious prison time despite numerous child sex allegations and arrests.

"You are not just a con artist, you are not just an escape artist, you are not just a chameleon," Judge Theresa Canepa said Friday. "You are evil personified."

The Bay Point victim was not present in court. However, the Contra Costa judge's stiff sentence provided a sense of closure for another of Miller's victims, a 19-year-old former child actor who says Miller abused him constantly when he was 11 years old, leading to depression and multiple suicide attempts. Miller was never charged with molesting the former child actor, who asked that his name not be used.

"I feel safe for the first time in a long, long time," said the young man outside court, choking on his words. "I finally have a sense of closure I've been waiting for years, and, thankfully, I think I can start a new chapter in my life now."

Miller tallied a handful of child pornography arrests since the 1990s, but he manipulated the legal system, victims and their families to serve as little time as possible.

During the sentencing hearing, the former child actor, now a young man, stared Miller down.

"Welcome to reality, Chris. This is the real world we live in, with real people that have real feelings, emotions and rights. ... It's not your playground, and little kids are not your toys," he said later. "Through my experiences, I will help others through their struggles, and that's what life and love are all about, Chris, simply humanity, not your sick and twisted idea."

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Miller, who still denies molesting the second boy, spoke on his own behalf, reading a lengthy statement to the judge explaining how he was abused at 12 years old and is being assaulted in prison by prisoners when they "gleefully find out my charges."

"Please don't throw my life to the wolves," he told the judge, and asked for the chance to once again see his twin boys.

"You are entering your own personal hell," she said. "A hell you have earned and which you richly deserve."

Miller must serve 85 percent of his 69-year sentence, said prosecutor Melissa Smith. His attorney had asked for 10 years.

In an earlier interview with this newspaper, the young man spoke publicly about the abuse for the first time.

His introduction to the pedophile was alarming.

The family had hired well-known international attorney Edward De Sear to represent the boy and his burgeoning acting and modeling career. In February 2006, De Sear introduced the family to Miller, saying he had connections to the Young Artists Award Show, an annual production recognizing child actors. Last year, De Sear was indicted on eight counts of advertising, distributing and possessing child pornography.

Miller, whose modus operandi was ingratiating himself to victims' mothers, started having an affair with the child actor's mother, the young man said. The problems began after the boy's mother began dropping him off for solo trips to Miller's Glendale house so the pair could work on music. Miller often used his guitar to bond with his victims, Smith, the prosecutor, said.

On that first night, Miller started wrestling the child actor, pinning him to the ground and asking him to kiss him. After close to an hour, the boy finally gave in, he said, so Miller would let him up. A couple of weeks later, Miller again forced him to kiss him, the teen said, but also groped him, pulled his pants down and performed oral sex on him. He later asked the boy how it was. When he didn't like his response, he raped the 11-year-old, the young man said.

"I was so terrified," he said, crying. "That day seemed to go on forever."

He had no way to contact his parents and was stuck there. "I always felt I had nowhere to go," he said.

Despite telling his mother what was happening, the young man said his mother would drop him off almost every weekend, and he would be assaulted two to six times each visit. Miller would also stay at the family's house, sleep with the boy's mother, then walk upstairs to his loft and rape him, the young man said.

Once his father found out and Miller was arrested on child pornography charges, authorities interviewed a despondent child.

"I was very scared and embarrassed, and I didn't want anyone knowing," he said. "I was giving them as few details as I could without telling them the full extent of what happened."

Police found his story not to be credible, which led other investigative agencies to also drop the case, he said. On Aug. 2, 2007, Miller was convicted on one count of child pornography but no molestation. He was sentenced to four years but only served two.

He was released Christmas Day 2008 and launched a cyberattack on the boy, distributing 10 explicit videos of the boy, with vicious letters to the boy's agents, casting directors, friends, family and others in the entertainment industry.

"I would walk into an audition, and people would turn and look at me and start whispering," the young man said. "It was humiliating."

Life since the alleged abuse has been difficult, he said.

"Nothing made me happy. Finally, one day I felt like such a burden and that everybody would be happy if I was gone," he said.

He overdosed and was hospitalized. This would happen five more times, he said.

"I've finally found true happiness, but the one thing that really helps me ... is knowing I can help keep this from happening to other people," he said. "It will be my life's mission."